Infinite Disaster Survival

Under the continuous scorching sun, unless you stay at home during the day, or wrap yourself up tightly to avoid heat stroke, other sun protection methods are useless. The villagers of Dongxi Village have been busy in the fields at the foot of the mountain during this period, and the whitest ones have been tanned to wheat skin.

Most of the people who come to buy things are like this. Everyone is tanned, so they don’t care much about it. But when you see someone darker, you will still be a little surprised. The group of people selling things are worthy of being transported in the scorching sun. Just their black skin is particularly convincing.

The stall that Wen Zheng and his friends are approaching sells a small number of plants. The plants on display are relatively rare in the local area, but if you watch TV, especially documentaries and popular science films, you can recognize that these are basically plants that used to live in the tropics.

The evolution and adaptation speed of plants have not kept up with the rapid increase in high temperatures in the past two years. The climate in tropical areas is no longer suitable for most organisms to survive, but the daily temperature in Dongxi Village after the increase is suitable for the growth of these tropical plants.

There are also many colorful booklets stacked next to them, which focus on the temperature that these tropical plants can tolerate, the amount of water consumed during growth, and which parts are edible and how they taste. In addition to the paper version distributed to everyone, when someone buys it, an electronic version of the same content will be sent to them.

There are not many people interested in these plants. Most people focus on the various canned foods placed next to the plants, especially canned fruits, which are relatively rare fruits in small supermarkets. The processed fruits are soaked in sweet juice at first glance. If you buy it, you can not only taste the fruits you haven't eaten for a long time, but the canned water is delicious and can replenish the water needed by the body.

Looking at it, the throat can't help but move a few times, and the mouth is even drier. Someone tentatively asked about the price of these canned foods. If you buy it with fine grains, you need to pay twice the weight of the canned food you buy. If you buy it with coarse grains, it's not just twice, but five times, and it has to be processed.

This price is a bit prohibitive, but the reason why these people go to the countryside instead of selling in big cities is because rural people have fields to cultivate and have food in their hands, unlike people living in cities who need to spend money to buy the government's daily limited food distribution.

So after hesitating for a while, it is estimated that people who have enough food stored at home directly took out a sack of fine grains and bought all kinds of canned food such as canned coconut, canned pineapple, canned lychee, etc. After selecting, they were not in a hurry to leave. After all, they were all glass bottles, and there were crowds of people around, so they put the things here first and called someone they knew to come and pick him up.

It was so boring to wait here, so this person directly picked one from the cans he bought and opened it. With a pop, the can was pried open by a knife, and the sweet smell unique to the can floated out from it. In order to disperse the smell, the seller beside the truck also turned on a big fan to blow the smell out. The buyer first took a sip from the can, with a satisfied look on his face, and then slowly took out the fruit from the can with the chopsticks handed by the seller.

Even if the first buyer was a hired help, this was successful. Those who didn't want to buy at first started to try to buy after seeing this scene. Wen Zheng looked at the villagers who came out. Many of them were tempted. He asked in a low voice what types and quantities they wanted to buy, and walked to the front of the stall with the food.

Before buying, I took a closer look at the cans. There was no fake notes or anything. The marks on the cans were all produced last year when the high temperature was not particularly serious. The shelf life was one year, and there was about one month left before the shelf life ended. Seeing Wen Zheng's actions, the seller took the microphone to fill in the shelf life issue without waiting for Wen Zheng to speak, and now someone started bargaining.

Wen Zheng did not speak. After asking the seller to pack the cans according to his list, he placed his eyes on the tropical plants next to him. The roots of these plants were wrapped in soil, which looked very dry. The door had not been watered for a while, and the leaves were slightly drooping, but Wen Zheng could feel that some of the plants were still very tenacious.

"Boss, I won't bargain with you about the shelf life of these cans. Can I buy these saplings at a lower price?" Wen Zheng asked with a smile. Many trees on the mountain died completely after experiencing the high temperature and drought. The grass and trees on the mountain became more and more sparse, and the mountain without plant roots was often prone to accidents. Wen Zheng had enough food in his hands, and he planned to free up some of the food in the space door and simply buy some plants back.

Plants need to consume water resources to grow, but they are not as good as other commodities. They sold a lot along the way, and they were reluctant to water them. When they got here, the remaining plants didn't look very good. Wen Zheng was the first to ask. If they waited a few more places, the plants would probably die even more. Seeing that Wen Zheng was interested, he hurried over to sell them.

The two sides bargained back and forth, and finally Wen Zheng bought all the remaining plants at a price that made the sellers feel a little painful. He also asked the sellers to promise to drive the plants and canned food to Dongxi Village after the sale. Now pay part of the food as a deposit, and the remaining balance will be settled after the goods are delivered to Dongxi Village.

After the deal was done, Wen Zheng left the food as a deposit, and came out with a few cans of canned fruit in his hands. He first gave some to the villagers to satisfy their cravings, and then continued to visit the other stalls.

There were more people coming at this time. Even though there were police on the roadside to control the order, things would always happen when people were crowded together. Tuan Tuan pulled Wen Zheng's clothes, and Wen Zheng nodded clearly. He stayed here to watch the villagers, but Tuan Tuan suddenly left. Just when the other villagers were surprised and wanted to ask about the situation, they saw a scream suddenly coming from the place where Tuan Tuan ran to. The frightened crowd scattered around, and they saw Tuan Tuan caught a thief with a knife.

At this time, the thief's wrist was controlled in a twisted posture, and he was still shouting miserably. The police who were maintaining order on the roadside had heard the noise and came over. After seeing the scene clearly, they controlled the thief. The police took the loudspeaker and reminded everyone again to keep an eye on the money they carried with them, and to ask the police on the roadside for help immediately if there was any problem.

Tuan Tuan returned to the team, but encountered many such thefts in the subsequent process. Tuan Tuan caught them twice, and Wen Zheng also went to catch them twice. Later, there were thieves who wanted to attack them. Before Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan could react, they were discovered by the villagers who were always vigilant.

This time, they not only bought the things they needed, but also caught an extra gang of thieves.

Later, when they went shopping again, no thieves dared to come near them.

Several vendors who came from other places, in addition to those selling plants and canned fruits, also sold summer clothes and various ice beds and pillows to cool down. There was also a stall that even sold expensive ice machines, saying that it could directly use solar power to convert water into ice, but now every household has a refrigerator, with solar energy and no shortage of electricity, and can use a freezer to freeze ice, so there are many people watching the excitement, but few people are willing to pay for it.

Various essential medicines and prepared Chinese herbal medicines are very popular, especially the prepared herbal tea bags, which are simply snatched by people.

After wandering around the night market all night, all the food he brought was spent. Wen Zheng still owed a sum of food for buying plants and canned food. He brought back a lot of things, but he felt too tired and wanted to lie down in bed to rest.

In the next two days, the remaining people in the village who wanted to go went to the night market in batches. Wen Zheng and Tuantuan went for the next two days. They didn't go to join in the fun, but to ensure the safety of the villagers. In the next two days, not only did they catch the thief, but they also caught the human traffickers who wanted to take the child away. This is not a problem that can be solved by simple punishment.

The parents of the child are very grateful. If the child is lost, let alone the New Year, their whole family will be anxious and crazy.

Three days later, the convoy left, and the local vendors packed up their stalls and went home. Ordinary people took the opportunity of the New Year and the lively night market to shop. Dongxi Village also welcomed the plants transported by trucks.

The cost of buying plants was entirely borne by Wen Zheng, but when planting, the whole village went out, and it took two days to plant all the plants. The planting site surrounded the cave they would live in after digging. After planting, the villagers used domestic water to water them very sparingly, and did not let Wen Zheng take care of them alone. They were also worried that the plants would not survive, so they ran over every day to check on the situation.

When they saw the branches and leaves of these plants stretching and becoming energetic, they were sure that they had adapted to the environment here and felt relieved.

When Wen Zheng and Tuantuan were practicing, they guided the meager energy in the air to circulate inside the plants for a few circles. These plants themselves had vitality, so they survived tenaciously.

Seeing that the plants survived, the villagers were even happier. They temporarily put aside their worries about the future and spent this Spring Festival happily.

With the limited supplies now, we tried our best to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. We took out the fine rice and flour that we were reluctant to eat, and the fresh ones grown in the vegetable garden were brought out. We slaughtered a few chickens that had not grown too big after the temperature dropped. No one dared to raise pork. I heard that there was a pig farm in the next city that insisted on raising pigs in large quantities under high temperatures. During the period when it was still very hot, swine fever broke out. Thanks to the government's timely handling, the situation did not become more serious.

Pig breeding is also more difficult. Now there are basically no pig farmers in rural areas. The country has thought of the problems that ordinary people will face. They can't buy pork to eat during the New Year. The supplies specially reserved by the country should be taken out at this time. The pork stored in the cold storage is transported to markets in various places and sold in limited quantities at normal prices to ensure that people who want to buy meat for the New Year can have a good year this year.

In everyone's expectation, the New Year has arrived, and many of the customs of the past New Year have been picked up. On the first day of the New Year, every household goes out to greet each other, hoping to hear more auspicious words and send more blessings.

I hope the new year will develop in a good direction.